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“She’s an awfully classy lady — her intelligence, inspiration, not to mention those arms,” said Judith Huf, 61, a longtime Feingold supporter and donor.

Later Wednesday, Obama will also headline a Chicago fundraiser for a trio of Illinois House candidates — Rep. Deborah Halvorson, Rep. Bill Foster and Dan Seals — and another for Illinois Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias.

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In total, she’s scheduled for 11 fundraisers in seven states over 12 days. And additional stops are expected in the final week before Nov. 2.

“She's an invaluable asset, and my guess is we'll get good response out there on the campaign trail,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters.

“You'll see her make a very positive case for these candidates, not get involved in the back and forth of normal political campaigns,” he added.

In Milwaukee, the first lady said many middle-class families are seeing their dream slip away. And while touting the president’s legislative victories, she also acknowledged, “it’s going to take a lot longer to dig ourselves out of this hole than any of us would like.”

“I know that for a lot of folks, change hasn’t come fast enough. It hasn’t come fast enough for Barack or for Russ either,” she said, putting in a word for Feingold, who is locked in a tight race for reelection.

Yet she stressed the progress that has been made so far. The crowd applauded the first lady as she listed off her husband's legislative achievements, from health care reform to making education more accessible to nominating two women to the Supreme Court.

“Remember as Americans, we have always pushed back the cynicism and kept moving forward,” she said. “And that’s what we need to do today. Wisconsin, that’s what we need to do again today.”

When change seems the hardest, Obama said she thinks about her dad.

“I think about how, no matter how tired he got as he struggled to walk, no matter how frustrated he felt trying to dress himself in the morning, he just kept getting up,” she said.

Hey Mrs Obama, We come to this as mothers as well and tell you that your husband's policies are destroying the future of our children.

Your husband frets about letting upper middle class parents like me keep a tax cut the will cost $750 billion over TEN years but thinks nothing of spending $850 billion in ONE year. My kids are going to have to pay for your husband's sop to the unions in this country.

Letting me keep that tax money that my husband works long and hard to earn enables us to send our kids to the same type of private school you send your daughters. But you don't seem to care about my kids.

THat is not surprising since as a mom in chief you had NO problem watching your husband cancel the scholarship program for poor kids in DC that enabled them to compete for spots in the school your daughters attend.

So please Mrs. O, you are a LIAR. You don't care about our kids rich or poor. Your only concerns are your lobster dinners in Martha's Vineyard and your 5 star trips to Spain all of which depend on your advocating to solidify your husband's power base.

that's why we put some republicans in office....LOL LOL LOL....and whether yu believe some Mother and wife who travels to Marbella, Spain on her husband's birthday is another story. I wonder why she thought he wants to be alone. I have several theories. None of them are nice ones.

And how is it that the use of TAXPAYER (like me) money for clear and obvious political campaign purposes is not ILLEGAL?? Well, of course it's not, but when you "own" the DOJ...

Oh, and Black Nasty with your, "You go girl!!!" comment: I agree. You go girl... back to Chicago before your usurping husband is finally found out. Michele might even get a lighter sentence for her treason, sedition, fraud and theft of government property.